When I was living in Mexico, I avoided FUD brand like the plague. That was based purely on the name. Too many associations with 1980’s generics to my mind. Similarly I avoided Bimbo white bread (Mexican Wonder!) and also Wonder. Bimbo is a friggin’ huge company; I guess it was inevitable that they’d start marketing their own brand in the United States leveraging their huge US manufacturing capabilities. I still haven’t seen Bimbo any place but Mexicantown (Detroit), though.
Off hand I can’t of a brand of product that I avoid in the supermarket. There certainly are whole classes of things I don’t purchase, but most things I purchase aren’t branded anyway (fruits, meats, veggies, etc.). I suppose I’d never buy Crisco brand extra virgin olive oil, or anything other than Lea and Perrins Worcestershire, though.
Edit: I’ve not yet learned what to avoid in China, though, other than “anything Chinese.” That’s going to be a problem, though.
Magnavox: the Chevrolet of consumer electronics. Extremely cheaply made, plastic chassis, internal parts and circuit boards held in place with gobs of hot glue. Whenever one came in for service, the only way to get into it was to break it apart.
On bimbo: their actual bread is lousy, but i will say that their pastry-ish items are above par. Their pound cakes, specifically, are the best I’ve had from prepackaged brand. Faint praise, maybe, but they’re great when you’re drunk at 2AM.
Texas Pete and Louisiana are two different hot sauce brands. I’ve only had Louisiana, which I recall as liking less than most but didn’t find inedible.
In my opinion, they’re not…I’ve never had a Mt. Olive product like what the OP described.
I was not aware that Roddenberry’s was still around.
I’ve had enough of Dell, based off of the last computer I tried to buy from them…it overheated minutes after I turned it on, and it took me hours to get in touch with their returns department.
KRUSTEAZ. Lemon bars, that is. This is the second time I’ve mixed up a batch and gotten burned. :mad: This stuff goes rancid FAST. Didn’t think in time to mix a pinch of the lemon filling with a drop of water before proceding - do this! and sniff, and if it smells bad, throw it out and save yourself three eggs. Krusteaz is good at apologizing and sending coupons if you complain to them, send in the number printed on the box, but I don’t know if I’d want to buy more of their products.
Add Gateway to this list. I had a gateway computer at work and a Gateway Laptop at home and they both crapped out. I was lucky that the Gateway computer was stolen in a burglary and I got to claim it on my homeowner’s policy.
E-Machines is kind crap but I bought one for $150.00 in 2001 that lasted me five years before dying on my friend who I had given it to. At that price point, you expect a lot less.
For consumer electronics, Apex was pretty bad in my experience although at that price point, it did the job.
TRIO brand instant gravy mixes. This may just be a restaurant-only brand (I’ve never seen it in stores), and every time I’ve had to use the stuff in a restaurant — fortunately, not often — I’ve found it to make terrible gravy. Bad texture, floury-tasting. Every place I’ve worked that has tried it has quickly tried something else.
On the hot-sauce-in-Mexican-restaurants issue, the brand I see most often around here (Washington state) is Tapatio, which isn’t bad. I’ve seen Cholula in a handful of places as well, and it’s also pretty good. Both “just hot enough” and both with good flavor. I’m talking about actual Mexican-owned, Mexican-run places.
There… edited that for you. Doesn’t matter if it’s frequent flier miles or not, AA treats you like dogshit for the most part.
And the “Fud” brand always makes me think of an old Far Side comic where a dog is trying to entice a cat into the dryer, and it’s labeled “Cat Fud” (instead of “Food”).
I’ve a couple of excellent Dell laptops and one big order screwup that sent me to HP instead. The HP was a POS and I’m back to Dell and happy with the machine.
Pyrex. Dow Corning sold off the trademark and the new owners put out inferior stuff; voila, a fine old trademark destroyed. Gee, hope your executives made some money off that. :rolleyes:
Wow,** Rocketeer**, do you have any idea when this happened? I ask because sitting in an un-opened box from December or January is some unopened Pyrex going with my othe half to grad school.
